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MINISTER FOR HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

Forestry Housing

QUESTION NO 119

Ms Follett - asked the Minister for Housing and Community Services:- on 29 March 1990

1) Is the Minister aware of a report in the Canberra Times of 15 March 1990 entitled "Forest homes facing the axe".

2) Did the Housing Trust remove a stove, a heater, and weatherboards above the roof flashing from the house known as No 203 Pierces Creek, thereby making the house uninhabitable.

3) Does the Minister approve of this action.

Mr Collaery - the answer to the members question is as follows:-

1) - Yes

2) The previous tenant of Cottage 203 Pierces Creek considered the house unsuitable for habitation, and requested a transfer to other accommodation. The Housing Trust agreed with his assessment and complied with his request. The Housing Trust then arranged for the removal of a number of items for use in other Trust dwellings. These did not include the weatherboards mentioned in "The Canberra Times" article. They did include a stove top far which a long term Trust tenant had been waiting for some months. As forest workers have now indicated that they are willing to work together to improve this house to a habitable condition, the items removed by the Trust have been replaced.

3) Yes

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